This edition of the Taxonomy Matters series explores the concept of behavioral economics. According to the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, in an article by Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard Thaler, behavioral economics is the combination of psychology and economics … [Read more...] about Taxonomy Matters: Behavioral Economics
Knowledge Products
At the IDB, we classify knowledge products as follows: Open Source, Open Data, Courses, and Publications.
This tag brings together all the entries in Abierto al Público that touch on any of those categories of knowledge products. These articles are generally explanatory and compile relevant conclusions about the product being discussed.
Taxonomy Matters: Food Security
Our recurring series Taxonomy Matters explores definitions of terms related to the field of international development and their connection to knowledge products that we publish. This new entry focuses on the subject of food security. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and its multilingual thesaurus AGROVOC, food security is a situation … [Read more...] about Taxonomy Matters: Food Security
The Publication Station: Korea-LAC cooperation, digital inclusion policies, and gender discrimination
3 minutos de lectura. Welcome to The Publication Station, a worthwhile stop on your knowledge journey, where you will find a compilation of IDB Publications available in English, covering a range of topics germane to social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean. This recurring series has a Spanish language counterpart, El Rincón de Publicación that is … [Read more...] about The Publication Station: Korea-LAC cooperation, digital inclusion policies, and gender discrimination
Taxonomy Matters: Climate Finance
This article is part of the Taxonomy Matters series, where we share definitions from our knowledge taxonomy along with a set of related knowledge products. In this edition, the term is climate finance. Within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), it is defined as “local, national or transnational financing—drawn from public, private and … [Read more...] about Taxonomy Matters: Climate Finance
Amplifying access to knowledge: evolving our Publications Catalog using generative artificial intelligence
At Abierto al Público, for many years we’ve been convinced that natural language processing is essential for successful knowledge management in the digital age. When ChatGPT started gaining widespread attention last year, and other LLMs (Large Language Models) were made widely accessible, we had lots of ideas about how to use them. In support of the IDB’s Institutional … [Read more...] about Amplifying access to knowledge: evolving our Publications Catalog using generative artificial intelligence